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Today, 05:00 PM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Consciousness in Science and Technology

can't really answer, as it would be against the rules, I guess.

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Today, 03:59 PM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Consciousness in Science and Technology

yes.

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Today, 11:59 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Should I Auto-Ban? in Forum Introductions and Feedback

Yes, if I want to talk about religion and politics, I try to do it on another forum.....I send letters to papers too..:D

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Today, 11:40 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Consciousness in Science and Technology

I think for a machine to be conscious, its brain would have to be able to take on an infinite number of states, so I would guess it couldn't be an...

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Today, 11:29 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Consciousness in Science and Technology

"I've gotta feeling, a feeling deep inside, oh yeah", to quote the Beatles...........we will only ever really have a feeling about robots, how they...

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Yesterday, 04:41 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Should I Auto-Ban? in Forum Introductions and Feedback

No I haven't really. One problem is I know the audience a little here and can interact with them. Okay, I just have to stop posting for a few days...

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Yesterday, 01:08 AM

BigDon started a thread Should I Auto-Ban? in Forum Introductions and Feedback

So on top of the meds I've been whining about the last couple of weeks I have some new stuff piled on *including* a powerful anti-anxiety drug. ...

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2017-Aug-18, 03:31 PM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Consciousness in Science and Technology

I think consciousness is the foundation of life(bit atm maybe*)...maybe it takes even cells to be intelligent to function, so I do believe that...

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2017-Aug-18, 12:03 PM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Consciousness in Science and Technology

I think it might be impossible for a concious entity to define itself and how it works. It would only be a conciousness understanding itself using...

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2017-Aug-18, 05:09 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Why Can't We See Earth In The Past? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

I think someone once said on here that if the expansion of the universe were accelerating, then the light wouldn't be able to go all the way around.

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2017-Aug-18, 04:54 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Gravitational Lensing Provides Rare Glimpse Into Interiors of Black Holes in Universe Today

nakedsingularites.com a website for lonely black holes..

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2017-Aug-18, 04:48 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread what do you think of using Superman in thought experiments? in Science and Technology

well, I always thought Superman should stick to the laws of physics as much as possible...the movie where he goes back in time, confirmed my idea...

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2017-Aug-18, 02:57 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread The last and final argument about reality. in Science and Technology

I think there must be grades of awareness about what is really going on maybe. We are aware now that the moon goes around the Earth, and the Earth...

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2017-Aug-18, 02:42 AM

Mudskipper started a thread what would be an alternative paradigm to the idea of atoms? in Off-Topic Babbling

I often wonder how people saw matter thousands of years ago, before the idea of atoms came along(The ancient Greeks I think). Did people think matter...

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2017-Aug-18, 02:18 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread The last and final argument about reality. in Science and Technology

yes, powerful methods, but I wonder, as with black holes, whether a theory can give good predictions even though the theory or interpretation of the...

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2017-Aug-17, 03:33 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Backyard Wildlife in Off-Topic Babbling

They took away my trumpet....

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2017-Aug-17, 03:31 PM

BigDon started a thread Why I Love Astronomy 101, (New To Me) TZO's in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

My sense of wonder was sparked yesterday. That doesn't happen much anymore. Stumbled on a new to me extreme stellar object I never knew existed! And...

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2017-Aug-17, 02:42 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that bugs you in Off-Topic Babbling

Dr. Grant was the person who taught me that one in the aforementioned thread. I guess common courtesy should have told me to ask the good doctor...

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2017-Aug-17, 02:31 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Backyard Wildlife in Off-Topic Babbling

You outlanders and your weird animals... Don, I didn't know you had prairie lobsters in Florida. You would have thought the alligators, pythons...

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2017-Aug-17, 02:03 PM

BigDon replied to a thread T-rex vs modern species. in Science and Technology

"That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works!" Ummm, okay...

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2017-Aug-17, 01:08 PM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Does the inside of a neutron star rotate slower than the outer parts, due to t-dilat? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

So, a neutron star revolves as a whole, but it is still under quite heavy gravitation time dilation: does it appear to revolve slower than it would...

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2017-Aug-17, 10:58 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread what do you think of using Superman in thought experiments? in Science and Technology

what we need is Super Scientist.....a man or woman who is nearly indestructible, can fly at any speed less than c, but otherwise obeys the laws of...

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2017-Aug-17, 10:52 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Would light looping around a black hole and back on itself put us..... in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

no probably not...:D it was just a thought, and I realise we are already in the light-cone from the past..

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2017-Aug-17, 10:35 AM

Mudskipper started a thread Would light looping around a black hole and back on itself put us..... in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

...put us in a lightcone from the past, and affect causality? Or something like that that should be impossible? edit: probably not...just a...

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2017-Aug-17, 10:06 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Why Can't We See Earth In The Past? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

one way light could loop back is if the universe were a 3-sphere, then the light might go all the way around, but maybe that is one reason the...

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2017-Aug-17, 09:36 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread The last and final argument about reality. in Science and Technology

the thing I'm not sure about, are do the laws of physics apply to what you observe, or do they only apply locally? Does the speed of light equal c...

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2017-Aug-16, 03:51 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that bugs you in Off-Topic Babbling

So finally one of the rats got into the house. I saw it myself. I was watering my back garden and I flushed one from behind a planter box and it...

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2017-Aug-16, 03:38 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Energy Density in Science and Technology

What are they referring to on the battery chart by cylindrical and prismatic?

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2017-Aug-16, 03:21 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Making cheese in Off-Topic Babbling

I lived in an Italian neighborhood most of my life. And when I was a child there were still "The Mustaches" around in plenty. One was my first...

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2017-Aug-16, 12:25 PM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Does the inside of a neutron star rotate slower than the outer parts, due to t-dilat? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

But how do the rockets start at the same time? What is the trigger; an agreed time? from behind the rockets, it would seem like the front one started...

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